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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Veldt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. McClean say children prefer?
(a) Scrooges
(b) Happiness
(c) Destruction
(d) Santas

2. From whose perspective is the story told?
(a) Lydia Hadley’s
(b) David McClean’s
(c) George Hadley’s
(d) Peter Hadley’s

3. What does Dr. McClean think that the room has become more important than?
(a) The children’s real friends
(b) The children’s real mother and father
(c) The children’s relationship with each other
(d) The children’s attendance at school

4. Who does the wife want the husband to call, and for what reason?
(a) A psychologist to take a look at the nursery
(b) A furnace repairman to fix the heat
(c) A plumber to look at the clogged bathtub
(d) A contractor to stop the leaking roof

5. What is forgotten, and then quickly produced, at the dinner table?
(a) Dinner plates
(b) Ketchup
(c) Tea
(d) French fries

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr.McClean suggest George do to the nursery?

2. Who initially suggests that the family take a vacation and “shut the house off”?

3. Complete the sentence: “…the walls began to ________ and recede into __________distance…”?

4. How much did they pay for their home?

5. What genre is The Veldt?

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